1. "Authors, artists, and even philosophers are much better off having a very small number of fanatics behind them than a large number of people who appreciate their work. The number of persons who dislike the work don’t count—there is no such thing as the opposite of buying your book,"
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder
2. "Man may have been made in the image of God, but human society was made in the image of His opposite number, and is always trying to get back home."
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Stephen King, The Stand
3. "The number of secrets I receive is in inverse proportion to the number of secrets anyone expects me to have of my own. And this is the real source of my dismay. Being told secrets is not - never has been - a sign that I belong or that I matter. It is quite the opposite: confirmation of my irrelevance."
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Zoë Heller, What Was She Thinking? [Notes on a Scandal]
4. "Authors, artists, and even philosophers are much better off having a very small number of fanatics behind them than a large number of people who appreciate their work. The number of persons who dislike the work don’t count—there is no such thing as the opposite of buying your book, or the equivalent of losing points in a soccer game, and this absence of negative domain for book sales provides the author with a measure of optionality."
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Antifragile: Things that Gain from Disorder
6. "number 2s."
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Andy Griffiths, Just Doomed!
7. "Laziness is love's opposite."
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M. Scott Peck, The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love
8. "Making love with a woman and sleeping with a woman are two separate passions, not merely different but opposite. Love does not make itself felt in the desire for copulation (a desire that extends to an infinite number of women) but in the desire for shared sleep (a desire limited to one woman)."
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Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
9. "Tomas came to this conclusion: Making love with a woman and sleeping with a woman are two separate passions, not merely different but opposite. Love does not make itself felt in the desire for copulation (a desire that extends to an infinite number of women) but in the desire for shared sleep (a desire limited to one woman)."
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Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
10. "Tomas came to this conclusion: Making love with a woman and sleeping with a woman are to separate passions, not merely different but opposite. Love does not make itself felt in the desire for copulation (a desire that extends to an infinite number of women) but in the desire for shared sleep (a desire limited to one woman)."
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Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being